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It is my guess that the great majority of humans, with very few exceptions, attend to their toilet needs pretty much the same way throughout their lives. That’s where I’m different. I like to experiment and try new ideas not afforded by long-standing customs and traditions and yes, commercialism. Rather than keep my discoveries a secret, I will from time, through this magazine, reveal some of my tips for the good of mankind. Take the washcloth. I no longer use a washcloth when I take a shower. Instead I use what some people refer to as a hand towel – the small towel that usually hangs from a ring by the sink. A normal washcloth, even the largest size, does not work nearly so well as a small hand towel for scrubbing the back. The only way to scrub the upper middle portion of your back is to take one corner of the hand towel in one hand and the other end in the other and saw up and down at a slight angle, first one side and then the other, behind your back. A washcloth won’t cut it. And a back scrubber is a girlish thing. But a hand towel fits the bill for a manly clean. One last thing while we’re in the shower. Most people have never put any deep and serious thinking into what part of the body to start cleaning first. My guess is that there may be only one in 500 million that has figured out the correct spot to begin the cleaning. The ears! That’s right, friends. The ear is the most logical and the most correct place to start. Why? I’m glad you asked. It is not a good thing to get soap in the ears. Therefore you have to start there with a very wet hand towel that has not been soaped yet. Once you have soaped the hand towel, you’ve lost any chance to do the ears without getting soap in them. After you have cleaned your ears, you can soap up the hand towel and get down to business. A real man never uses any kind of body lotion or powder after a bath. Why? You’re right. It’s a girlish thing. As for after shave or cologne, I use only Preferred Stock. This is something a man has to decide for himself and I just refuse to use anything else. Cooking Tip of the Week: You don’t have to buy an expensive cut of meat to have a steak that tastes like an expensive cut of meat. Try this, pick up a cheap package of round steak. With a butcher knife, make some shallow cuts all the way across the meat, then do crisscross cuts all the way back. Do the same thing on the other side. Sprinkle Mrs. Dash on both sides. Fry it in margarine. Watch it closely. You’ll only be turning it over a couple of times, three or four at the most. Keep your butcher knife handy. Every couple of three minutes make a cut into the meat. As soon as it is the exact color you want, remove it from the heat and serve it up. It will be so tender and tasty you won’t believe it’s round steak. But it’s just science. Yard Work Tip of the Week: If you have a small back yard, stop mowing the grass and never mow it again. Don’t rake up the leaves. Plant the kind of flowers and plants that come back up on their own. Allow wild flowers and wild plants and the more curious weeds to come up as they please. Toss your vegetable scraps from the table into the yard. Fix a place to compost your fruit peelings and egg shells. Your backyard will turn quickly into a lovely little place that you might find in the woods. Birds of all kinds will be constant visitors searching for the kind of foods that lawns don’t provide. Squirrels will visit too. Even you. Thought of the Week: In both learning and teaching, the process of stimulation fosters functional integration.
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